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Watch cosmonauts explore Russia's new Nauka space station module in this video tour - Space.com
Aug 03, 2021 48 secs

Look inside Russia's new space module with cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, who have created a video tour of the new Russian "Nauka" module that docked with the International Space Station last week. .

Russia's space agency Roscosmos' Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) — nicknamed "Nauka," which means "science" in Russian — docked with the space station Thursday (July 29).

After docking, the module experienced a software glitch that caused it to accidentally fire its thrusters, causing the space station to temporarily spin and tilt.

"Pyotr Dubrov and I welcome everyone from our new module #Nauka!," Novitskiy said in a Tweet.

Video: Nauka module's hatch opened on space station – Peek inside.

Related: International Space Station at 20: A Photo Tour.

Cosmonauts Novitskiy and Dubrov are two of seven crew members currently working on the space station.

As a result of the unplanned thruster firing, the space station lost what engineers call "attitude control" for about 47 minutes, causing the orbiting laboratory to tilt from its proper orientation.

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